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Волны на темном небе Ripples Through a Dark Sky
29.07.2016

Sunlight ripples through a dark sky on this Swedish summer midnight as noctilucent or night shining clouds seem to imitate the river below. In fact, the seasonal clouds often appear at high latitudes in corresponding summer months. Also known as polar mesospheric clouds, they form as water vapor is driven into the cold upper atmosphere.


Аналемма голубого Дуная Blue Danube Analemma
28.07.2016

The Sun's annual waltz through planet Earth's sky forms a graceful curve known as an analemma. The analemma's figure 8 shape is tipped vertically at far right in this well-composed fisheye view from Budapest, Hungary.


Туманность Орла от телескопа "Гершель" Herschel s Eagle Nebula
27.07.2016

A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured Pillars of Creation, star forming columns of cold gas and dust light-years long inside M16, the Eagle Nebula. This false-color composite image views...


M13: огромное шаровое звездное скопление M13: A Great Globular Cluster of Stars
26.07.2016

M13 is one of the most prominent and best known globular clusters. Visible with binoculars in the constellation of Hercules, M13 is frequently one of the first objects found by curious sky gazers seeking celestials wonders beyond normal human vision.


Удивительное небо над Аргентиной Puzzling a Sky over Argentina
25.07.2016

Can you find the comet? True, a careful eye can find thousands of stars, tens of constellations, four planets, three galaxies, and the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy -- all visible in the sky of this spectacular 180-degree panorama.


Глубокие изображения Магеллановых Облаков свидетельствуют о столкновении Deep Magellanic Clouds Image Indicates Collisions
24.07.2016

Did the two most famous satellite galaxies of our Milky Way Galaxy once collide? No one knows for sure, but a detailed inspection of deep images like that featured here give an indication that they have.


M2-9: крылья туманности Бабочка M2 9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula
23.07.2016

Are stars better appreciated for their art after they die? Actually, stars usually create their most artistic displays as they die. In the case of low-mass stars like our Sun and M2-9 pictured above, the stars transform themselves from normal stars to white dwarfs by casting off their outer gaseous envelopes.


Летние планеты и Млечный Путь Summer Planets and Milky Way
22.07.2016

Lights sprawl toward the horizon in this night skyscape from Uludag National Park, Bursa Province, Turkey, planet Earth. The stars and nebulae of the Milky Way are still visible though, stretching above the lights on the northern summer night while three other planets shine brightly.


Скопление галактик Эйбелл S1063 и за ним Galaxy Cluster Abell S1063 and Beyond
21.07.2016

Some 4 billion light-years away, galaxies of massive Abell S1063 cluster near the center of this sharp Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. But the fainter bluish arcs are magnified images of galaxies that lie far beyond Abell S1063.


Запуск и приземление Фалькона-9 Falcon 9: Launch and Landing
20.07.2016

Shortly after midnight on July 18 a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, planet Earth. About 9 minutes later, the rocket's first stage returned to the spaceport.


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